Baseball DIY

True, it's way too early to judge the situation, but I wanted to see how David Eckstein, Orlando Cabrera, and Edgar Renteria compare so far. Eck's who the Cards ended up with, Edgar's the dude we lost, and Orlando's the guy I wanted us to get when Edgar split. My apologies in advance for the appearance of this chart. I can't figure out how to get it formatted; Blogger seems to undo any spacing magic I work in the Compose screen.

AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB BA OBP SLG OPS
Eckstein 63 7 17 4 0 0 4 1 1 10 .270 .395 .333 .728
Cabrera 77 8 20 5 1 2 7 1 0 8 .260 .329 .429 .758
Renteria 84 12 20 4 1 2 9 1 0 6 .238 .289 .381 .670
GP GS INN TC PO A E DP FPCT RF ZR
Cabrera 20 20 182.0 97 33 63 1 11 .990 4.75 .843
Eckstein 17 17 149.0 87 28 58 1 12 .989 5.19 .800
Renteria 21 20 177.1 91 29 59 3 13 .967 4.47 .864

So Eck's living up to his reputation as an 0n-base machine and has a surprising lead in range factor (basically, outs per game). Edgar's .289 OBP is obscene. I think Orlando Cabrera is still the pick of the litter.

To be fair, though, Eckstein should get some bonus points for having to put up with the continuous barrage of "he's a good little player"/"he doesn't have the best skills, but he's scrappy" comments.